19/08/2016 Newsnight

The Games are nearly over, so how did Rio do?

For two weeks, Brazil has been the centre of the world.

We sat down with the country's former president, Lula da Silva.

Aid workers were targeted in South Sudan last month.

Their harrowing stories can tonight be told for the first time.

This sort of acted like a trigger for the soldier

Two shots were fired and he immediately fell to the ground.

Donald Trump's campaign manager is out.

Can Trump pull his Presidential bid back from the brink of defeat?

And Steve Smith takes to his Olympic sofa for the last time.

Wouldn't it be great to have a synchronised swimmer

He'll drag you underwater and do all kinds of

If they awarded medals for Olympic Games organisation,

would Rio get gold, silver, bronze or no place at all on the podium?

The grimmest predictions of chaos, even carnage, haven't come

true, but Brazil remains a country in crisis.

Already beset by economic turmoil and political scandal,

when the bunting's down and Usain Bolt and co have bolted,

it may be left in an even sorrier state than before.

In a moment an exclusive Newsnight interview with Lula da Silva,

Brazil's former President - the man who brought the Olympics

to the country himself now facing corruption allegations.

But first, a look at the Brazil lurking behind

It has the fifth largest population in the world.

For 12 years it was one of the fastest-growing

The "B" of those BRIC countries that Goldman Sachs said would be

at the vanguard of a global economic shift, and despite warnings

that they wouldn't be ready for the Olympics,

Albeit with a couple of garish green swimming pools.

But behind the glamour of the Games, Brazil is fighting a financial

crisis, the Zika epidemic and waves of popular protests.

A high-level investigation - Operation Car Wash -

is delving into allegations of money laundering and corruption

in the state-controlled oil company, Petrobras.

The country now has a budget deficit standing at 10%

of its GDP and 11 million people are unemployed.

35% of the population live in poverty and the country records

nearly 60,000 violent deaths every year.

The president, Dilma Rousseff, is currently suspended,

accused of obstructing justice and facing impeachment

for alleged financial mismanagement of the economy.

Her mentor, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ruled over

He started work as a shoeshine boy and street vendor, rising to power

A left-wing populist praised by President Obama,

he oversaw the bid to bring the Olympic Games to Rio and won

the sort of approval ratings most international leaders can

But now he, too, is charged with misconduct in the Operation

He is being formally charged with trying to obstruct justice

in the corruption scandal at the state oil company Petrobras.

So, will his country's decline prove a precursor

to his own or could there be a second post-Olympic act

for the Brazilian economic miracle and a reputational resurrection

BBC Brazil's Julia Carneiro spoke exclusively for Newsnight to former

You've been formally charged for trying to obstruct

justice in the corruption scandal at state oil

company Petrobras, and now

you have appealed to the United Nations, to the Human Rights

Why did you decide to go to the United Nations?

You have been talking about a witchhunt from the

media, from prosecutors, but on the other hand, you're also

Is it not fair that these investigations be carried out?

With the way things are going, do you fear being arrested?

What was the legacy that you had envisioned

from the Olympics, and how do you think things will be now,

Many of Brazil's problems were exposed

during the Olympic Games, like the lack

were robbed - how do you think that this

affected the image of the

What made you proud and what embarrassed you?

With the situation that we're seeing right

now in the country, do you worry for Brazil in the next year?

Thank you very much, President Lula.

Already facing allegations of being a candidate without a campaign,

Donald Trump today lost the man ostensibly in charge

Paul Manafort, who became campaign chairman just two months

ago after the previous incumbent was fired,

resigned after the publication of revelations detailing his ties

to pro-Russian interests and the former Ukrainian President,

Shortly before coming on air, I spoke to our correspondent,

Tom Burridge, who is in the Ukrainian capital,

I asked him first whether, in the absence of a concrete reason

for Manafort's resignation, it was likely that those

Ukrainian connections had played a significant part.

Yes, I think the primary reason is probably to do

The Trump campaign nosediving for a shake-up and Paul Manafort goes.

But the Ukrainian end of the thing hasn't been going away either.

Essentially, Paul Manafort's name appears in these documents

It is alleged to be a kind of black book, if you like,

Paul Manafort's name appears 22 times on 19 pages.

If you take the figures corresponding to the 22 entries

with Paul Manafort's name, add up those figures

of the 22 entries and you get a figure of $12.7 million.

Now, there is no suggestion or evidence that Paul Manafort has

received any of the money listed in these documents and in

a statement earlier in the week he said that the idea

that he received any cash payments is unfounded,

But the anti-corruption bureau here in Ukraine and the MP

who received these documents and has investigated is certain

that they are kosher, that the documents are genuine.

And all this, of course, unfolding against the backdrop

of Mr Trump's relatively warm rhetoric towards Vladimir Putin?

Yes, firstly some comments that riled people here in Ukraine

when Donald Trump in an interview on a US network said that

from the people he had spoken to, most people he thought in Crimea

were happy that Russia had annexed the peninsula and also,

as you say, he said on many occasions that

President Putin is someone he could do business with.

On the other hand, his campaign manager until today,

Paul Manafort, was a man who came here to Ukraine for nigh on a decade

doing political consultancy work and PR work for the former

president, Viktor Yanukovich, the man, of course, who fled this

country in 2014 after turning his back on the association agreement

with the European Union in favour of a deal with Russia.

And then he was, of course, forced from power.

On the one hand you could say that Paul Manafort was doing political

consultancy work for a foreign government and he

On the other hand you could say he was working for a regime

and a leader that was corrupt to the core and he helped keep

And joining us now from New York is Jason Meister, a Trump supporter

To lose one campaign chief might be considered misfortune, to lose two

of them is beginning to look like crass incompetence. How can he run

our country? That is a good media spin but that is not what is really

happening, we have come of the best week so far since the Cleveland

Convention, our opinion poll numbers are narrowing and that is of the

back of registered voters as opposed to likely voters and what the media

has missed in this election is the enthusiasm behind Trump supporters

and voters, the turnout has been historic, the only candidate in

history that has as many votes in the primary... I want to be clear

that I have not missed anything, you had a 2% lead for Clinton in the LA

Times, another had 5%, YouGov has 6%, NBC has 9%, I am possibly

missing something. He get rid of Manafort because things are going so

well? Things are going well. He got rid of the campaign chief because

things are going well? Things are going well and at certain times

during the campaign it calls for certain skills and Bannon is an

incredible guy for the home stretch and what everyone is missing is what

the American people are faced with. This campaign is not about what

someone says in the rally, this is about the issues facing America. The

economy, national security, and immigration. These are the three

issues that voters will be voting on when it comes to election day. And

what is Hillary Clinton? The poster child of what is wrong with

Washington, DC. And this election is about the outsider. This is about

Donald Trump's campaign and I am sorry to Labour this, can you

explain by you get rid of the campaign chief when things are

going, under your analysis, which is perhaps a little bit subjective,

going so well? Any other example where you would get rid of the man

in charge when things go brilliantly? Like I said, during the

campaign certain skills have an impact on the campaign, I think the

home stretch, we have the right people in place and Donald Trump, he

has stayed on message. He is talking about the economy and national

security. And we're going to start to see, and what you start to see is

what is Hillary Clinton? They are... There is criminal tools to this.

Bribery. What is Bannon has to do before Mr Trump gets rid of him? How

good do you have to be? I think if we stay on message and we let, we

peel the onion on the corruption and criminality and the pay for play,

Americans do not want corruption in Washington and we're going to have

to get rid of that and change it and that is what Trump represents. OK.

Some of the other elements of Mr Trump is my campaign have attracted

attention and I would like your personal reaction. I think you have

a daughter, when she's old enough to have a job, if she is sexually

harassed, would you be comfortable with the advice that she should find

another job? That is what Mr Trump suggest. I think you need to look at

the economy. We want to look at statements he is making in the

campaign and what you think about them. How do you feel about his

suggestion that victims of sexual harassment should just find new

jobs? That is not what this election is about. It is about the issues,

and we need to stay focused on the issues and stay on message. And the

message tonight is, things are going so well, we've sacked our campaign

chief. Thank you very much indeed for your time.

For almost three years, South Sudan, the world's youngest country,

has been involved in a bloody and complex multi ethnic civil war

between rival factions loyal to President Salva Kiir,

from the Dinka ethnic group, and Riek Machar, who is ethnic Nuer.

Right now, a tentative ceasefire is in place but in June fighting

On July 11th, the compound at Hotel Terrain, which housed teams

of international staff from a several organisations -

many who were aid workers - was overrun by South Sudanese troops

fresh from winning a battle with opposition forces.

Their rampage saw one Nuer journalist murdered,

women raped and gang raped, dozens of staff assaulted

A United Nations base was just up the road,

less than a mile away, and the UN is now being

accused of not responding properly to the attack.

This is the story of that day, told to Newsnight by five

of the people who were there - two Americans, a Philippine aid

worker called Gian Libot, and two other Westerners.

To protect their identities, we have asked actors

I must warn you this film contains deeply distressing

Monday morning was stressful but it wasn't out of the ordinary anymore.

So we were actually feeling pretty good until someone said there had

I don't remember who, but they said that the soldiers had

breached the front gate and coming into the compound.

So I sent my first message to the UN to say that our gate had been

breached and that was one of many messages that I sent

We heard people breaking into the compound.

They were shooting and stealing things.

About an hour later they figured out where we were and they methodically

So I was hiding underneath the bed at the first sign of

And the first thing they did was shout.

"Where is the money, where is the laptop,

They kept asking people, what is your nationality,

John was one of our local colleagues and he sought refuge with us

because he thought he would be safer with his international colleagues.

When the soldiers first entered the building they saw John run

from one of the apartment rooms and they grabbed him.

They threw him to the ground and they started beating

And while this was happening a few of the soldiers came

One of the distinct words that came out was a word, "Nuer",

and this sort of acted like a trigger for the soldier

Two shots were fired and he immediately

It was clear the situation had really escalated.

Successive waves of soldiers came into the room and they separated

I was trapped in a room and repeatedly raped.

Sometimes by one person, sometimes with many people in the room.

Until I was taken out of that room and I was put in another room and it

I went to hide inside the bathroom with another 11 people.

Everyone was trying to write messages on Facebook,

One of the soldiers looked me right in the eye.

And he started aggressively patting me down.

He put a gun to my head and he said, "if you don't have sex with me then

every soldier in the room will have sex with you and then

So he made it very clear that there really wasn't another option.

And he was telling me to "open your legs, open your legs".

So then he pulled my pants off completely and took

Some of the soldiers were aggressive and they kept shouting

And they tried to get the others involved,

Some of the soldiers wanted to sit down and make small talk,

like we were on on some sort of date.

One of them, it wasn't one of the ones who raped me,

And I said, your soldiers raped me and I'm upset

Because this is the work of God and not the work of man.

It was about 7pm, 7.30pm later that day and we were extracted

We actually got taken to the National Security building

and there were again many men in uniforms standing around.

They were all pretending they didn't know what had happened to us.

And at that point, one of my colleagues was saying,

I don't think you understand what we have just been through.

And this man said, I'm sorry for the inconvenience

I went out and tried to see if there was anybody,

These soldiers saw me and ordered me to go to this apartment.

And with his gun he touched me everywhere.

He ordered me to take my pants off and I saw my friend being raped.

And he ordered me to go there and I had to wait

Then they went away and there was this long and terrible

Generally, the compound has security lighting.

And it was actually just pitch black.

There was rubble everywhere because they had upended everything

I kept creeping out of my hiding place every so often to listen

I wanted to get out of there and find a time when I could run

We could see John's body was still on the ground.

And we covered it with a sheet out of respect.

The first moment that I understood that morning has arrived,

Once I heard the birds I said to my friend,

the birds are singing, morning has arrived.

We survive, we were whisked out of the country and given

We are taken back to our homes that are in relatively stable parts

of the world and we are looked after.

It's a horrific experience and a traumatic thing

For the women of South Sudan, that experience of rape in a much

more violent way and much more often than we ever would, but they didn't

Actors there, reading the real testimony of

The UN has been criticised for not acting quickly enough

to come to the aid of those in the Hotel Terrain,

and today we asked to speak to someone from the organisation,

This week, a statement from the UN Secretary General's office said that

"due to the gravity of these incidents" Ban Ki Moon has decided

to "launch an independent special investigation to determine

the circumstances surrounding these incidents and to evaluate

Well, tonight Newsnight bids a warm farewell to the Rio Olympics,

but we couldn't leave without a final word

from our Olympics correspondent Stephen Smith.

In tonight's Throne of Games season finale, he is joined

by the original Man Behaving Badly, Neil Morrissey, now an in-demand

We drop out on the last lap as Fiona Bruce goes

I've got a couple of confessions to make to the viewers who have

First of all, I never was in the British Olympics Deck

Quoits team, as I wrote in the book that accompanies this series.

Secondly, it's not my flat but it belongs to a familiar face.

I don't think I've ever seen it look so tidy!

I saw this lovely layout in Exchange and Mart.

Kirsty, you can't possibly live here.

I can see where you are getting your ideas from but I made Men

Behaving Badly for nearly 20 years and in real life we actually

We have turned into Olympoholics in our house.

It has been complete Olympomania.

Do I look like I've got a bit of red eye?

We have been sitting up to like four o'clock in the morning every day.

You have hit out this week at the perhaps

unrecognised horror of exploding laundry.

Tea towels, if they're not washed correctly, with all the grease

removed from them, when they go into the tumble dryer,

which is on quite a high heat as well, they can ignite.

I never thought we would hear that from Neil Morrissey.

Very, very precise, those pattern changes.

Wouldn't it be great to have a synchronised swimmer

He'll drag you underwater and do all kinds of things to you!

Apparently, being an Olympian smarts a little bit but it is nothing

like the day-to-day grind of an acting schedule.

I've got empathy with them, of course.

They think they work hard, but come on!

Now, did you offer them the cane work?

Did you say, I can bring something extra,

There's some decent points out of this discipline.

All that practice and he went the wrong side.

He knocked the bar off with his penis.

Gravity has shifted the member into a position and it hasn't

I'll leave it there, I think we've got the idea.

Good evening. It while since we last had a weekend like this one, a very

windy weekend and a very wet one. As well. On Saturday, we could see

destructive winds, particularly across England and Wales. Coastal

gusts of 50-60 mph. Big waves crashing onto shore, even inland,

big